Re: Comments about the new UnknownContentBuilder (AXIS2-4153)

Andreas Veithen wrote:
> 
> Questions are:
> 
> * While TextMessageBuilder and TextMessageFormatter should clearly
> remain optional (i.e. they would only be implemented by builders and
> formatters that deal with text content), MessageFormatterEx could also
> be merged into MessageFormatter. The additional getDataSource method
> can easily be implemented (message formatters are already required to
> return byte[], so returning a DataSource is not difficult). However
> this would break existing MessageFormatter implementations outside of
> Axis2. What do you think?

+1 for merging getDataSource() into MessageFormatter.

> * Is this in scope for Axis2 1.5?

No because Axis2 1.5 is already in progress. This is a breaking change and 
hence should not be rushed.

Sanjiva.
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